Lydia Cacho

Lydia Cacho is a journalist, social activist and author who has been awarded the National Human Rights Prize Don Sergio Méndez Arceo, the Yo Donna Prize in Spain for her humanitarian work, Amnesty Internationa’s Ginetta Sagan Prize, UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano Prize for freedom of expression and the PEN/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award, among many others. She has been a radio, television and newspaper journalist for over 18 years and she is the author of the critically acclaimed Los demonios del edén, Memorias de una infamia and Esclavas del poder. She lives in Cancun, Mexico.

A woman of great strength and courage, and who is deeply committed to ethical journalism and the advancement of human rights in Mexico for the long haul.

— Marianne Pearl, author of A Mighty Heart

A courageously reported investigative work.

— The Washington Post

Lydia Cacho is a model for anyone who wishes to become a journalist. She is a woman of great courage who has endured prison and torture to defend a minority that nobody listened to, to draw people’s attention to the wrongs that women and children are subject to in Mexico and in the poorest parts of the world. She has uncovered hitherto unknown information and she has exposed herself to enormous danger by informing against important businessmen and politicians.

— Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorrah

Lydia Cacho boldly questions every aspect of our civilization, including sacrosanct values such as free speech, free markets and liberty.